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Friday, 26 June 2015

Welcome back to another week of Colouring inspiration for you all!
It is our 2nd week of our theme forPink and Prettyand you can ENTER HERE
here at the Graph'It colouring challenge and again we are sponsored by the fabulous East Wind ....
Make sure you check out the amazing shop for some goodies!

You can enter anything that fits the theme and you have until Friday 3rd July to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUMYOU WISH!

So let's see what the team have made and what colours we were inspired by this week...

Nikky...I don't normally go bright with my pinks so I decided to try and go much more vibrant this week so this stunning front door was my inspiration (there is actually a house I pass every day from work which has the whole exterior painted and decorated like this, it's awesome but you know the neighbours just hate it LOL!)....

This image was fab to colour in but I made the mistake of printing it HUGE (like almost A4 FGS!) for some reason and I had to colour her up there and then so couldnt wait to reprint it at a normal size. Colouring big is great for practicing strokes and where to add light and shade, but when you have a large expanse of skirt like this it made the blending SO hard LOL! Not recommended if you're in a hurry and I actually messed it up a little so my blending isn't great on this but hey ho!

Now we have a couple more Skintone colours which have recently been released they slot right in to help make skin blending soooo much easier!Graph'It markers used:Skin: 4105, 4125, 4150, 3105, 3120, 4145, 4135 cheeksPinks: 5110, 5125, 5135, 5150, 5160, 5170Greys: Graph'It waterbased brushlinerGraph'It Shake White pen

Caroline....I love this image which is Baby Aurora and I used the following colour palette for inspiration:

The artist behind The East Wind digital images is known as Unky LaStrange. Unky makes her home in British Columbia, Canada with her wonderful daughter, Aurora, the love of her life and source of much inspiration. She has been creating art since she was a child always allowing it to reflect her interests, humour, and love of all that is quirky. Her unique images run the gamut from the darkly humourous and sometimes creepy through the world of fashion-forward Lucy Loo to the sweet Aurora and Baby Aurora where life and people are good and beautiful. There are images to suit every taste, occasion, or whim at The East Wind so make sure you check out the store by clicking the image above!

Nikky...As soon as I saw this amazing image which is called Angel I knew just how I wanted to colour her. Sometimes less is more and I love using just a hint of colour sometimes rather than the full on heavy coverage we love with Graph'It. This image sums up the exact colours I had in my mind when I started...

Scatty Jan Whoooo hoooo Pink and Pretty , just love , love, love using Pinks. I have used the real cutie image from East Wind - Baby Aurora you can find her here, just soooo sweet, I loved colouring her up. I added some hearts to her pillow. Using the lovely colour palette for my Inspiration...

In
addition, I have mastered (may be a slight exaggeration) the art of
using the Graph'It Marker Mix It Palette, which has let me mix 4125 and
3105/3110 to give that extra shadow without making it too dark and too
contrast. I also used the Mix It Palette for the dress adding 5170 to
the 5125 for that depth of shadow.

What fabulous makes and inspiration again this week!

Don't forget to check out all the wonderful images from our sponsor, East Wind...

We'll be back next week with the winnders from last time and more inspiration - go get your colour on!

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Friday, 12 June 2015

Welcome back to another Friday of colouring!Today we have more inspiration for you for ourBlues/Birthdays challengeENTER HEREwhich is kindly sponsored by the fabulous

Make sure you check out their store!

You can enter anything that fits either of the themes!

You have until Friday 19th June to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER -

YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH!

PRIZE 1:

Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2:

A random winner from The Design Team's Top 3 will win a $12 voucher to the Sponsor's store this week - how generous!

The winners from our last challenge are at the end of this post, but in the meantime let's see what the team have made for us this week:

Yvonne - This week I am bringing you 'Princess' from the new Serenity Collection from Polkadoodles. The papers are from the same collection. I used the following colour palatte.

I used the following markers: Skin: 4125, 4150, 3120, 4145

Hair: 3110, 3140, 3160

Dress & Wings: 7125, 7130, 7170

Crown: 1110, 1140, 1180

Flowers: 4145, 4135, 4175

Nikky...We're all trying to use colour palettes for inspiration to stretch our colour choices more but I have to admit I'm finding it rather hard LOL! I'm kind of a get on with it gal when it comes to my colouring and I just go with the flow but this was the palette I had in mind for this week...

Gorgeous tones! I'm such a muted fan it's really hard for me to venture into the 7150 area which is round where you will find cyan and the brighter blues shown on the palette here. Cyan is a cornerstone of any blue combination, it's one of the core colours which make up the entire colour wheel along with magenta, yellow and black, so it's important. When i'm trying to choose a blue I always look at cyan as my midtone and then tend to choose more of a muted version so the 71's are the colours I tend to use more in my colouring. I veered off this colour palette a little as I was viewing it on my phone and didnt realise I had a colour filter applied as I was viewing it haha! I'm such an idiot sometimes LOL! I basically used the palette as a guide but went with a more muted version of the colours as I wanted a really soft look to my sad little girl (this is Oddella Twigs from Polkadoodles). I actually added way more colour to this than I originally intended, I wanted to show you that you don't always have to colour really heavily, sometimes a few flicks of well placed colour is all you need so really I just paid attention to the face, hair and the water so this only took about an hour to colour...

I am also loving using the brand new Graph'It waterbased Pigmented Fineliner pens - these are super fine and are available in a range of different size blacks which are perfect for getting into those tiny areas and adding some really dark black shadows just where you need to fill in - you know where you get a tiny bit of white that you just cant get even the finest nib into. The .003 Fineliner is just sublime and there is only one other pen brand that has this tiny size, it's so fine it's barely there but they finish off your images perfectly.

Graph'It have also just launched a new set of Black and Grey Fine Brushliners - and OMG you NEEEED these!!! The fine brush is just superb! These are currently available in black and 3 shades of grey and again are waterbased pigmented. I have been experimenting a little with these and I'm loving using them again just to finish off and add some extra definition to my work at the end. I used them here on the water under her feet - they blend a little but allow you to still get some texture and the brush is just amazing to work with, again if you find it hard to get the fine alcohol marker nib into some areas these are perfect for assisting you. They are really designed for sketching and drawing but I am seriously in love with them.

Scatty Jan wooohooooo just love a bit of Oddella, this image is Oddella bow and you can find her in the Polkadoodles store here. Coloured with my Graph'Its a perfect match! I went for a more grey/blue colour theme using the colour palette for my Inspiration- Daring myself to use some darker skin tones which I adored using.

EDITED 12/6/15 - WE HAVE KINDLY BEEN CONTACTED BY AUNTY SUE WHO REQUESTED THIS BE RE-DRAWN AS SHE IS ON THE CRAFTY SENTIMENTS DT AND WE DIDNT REALISE THIS. SO THIS PRIZE IS NOW OFFERED TO OUR NEXT RANDOM WINNER FROM THE TOP 3, WHICH IS

Well done #7 Rora - you have won our sponsors prize of 3 Crafty Sentiments digis!
Please email us here quoting code GIw24002 to claim your prize!Thanks so much to everyone for entering your work was amazing!

Friday, 5 June 2015

We hope you're all fine and dandy this Friday and looking forward to a lovely weekend.

This week we are very pleased to announce that the challenge is very kindly sponsored by the lovely

Make sure you check out the digistore by clicking the image above.

Our challenge this week is all about

Blues/Birthdays

You can enter anything that fits either of the themes!

You have until Friday 19th June to enter

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO ENTER - YOU CAN USE ANY COLOURING MEDIUM YOU WISH!

PRIZE 1: Random winner chosen by Random.org: Set of Graph'It markers

PRIZE 2: A random winner from The Design Team's Top 3 will win a $12 voucher to the Sponsor's store this week - how generous!

This week the team have all been playing with some amazing new Graph'It colours which have just been released!

We have 3 new skintone colours - 3105, 4101 and 4105 which are just amazing and fill a couple of gaps - these will make your skin colouring even easier than before so make sure you go and get them snapped up HERE

If you want to find out more about Graph'It make sure you head over to the Graph'It blog at the top of the page!

Our winners of the last challenge will be announced next week as usual so in the meantime let's see what the team have made for you!

Yvonne - Hi there!!! For this challenge I used 'Joyful' from the new 'Serenity Collection' from Polkadoodles. She is such a gorgeous image and so easy to colour! The papers are from the same collection also.

I used the following markers:

Skin: 4125, 4150, 3120

Hair: 9506, 9508, 9909, 9106

Top: 9100, 9102, 9104

Dress: 7105, 7110, 7115

Claire C I've used this gorgeous image from Polkadoodles, she's from the Serenity collection and you can find the full collection here or get her as a digistamp called Serenity Dancing here. The blues in the Graph'It range are gorgeous and I love to add the Blue Greys into the mix when I'm colouring,

Colours used:

Skin 4125, 3120, 4150, 4110 plus 4135, 4147

Hair: 1210, 3120, 3145, 3150, 3180

Blues: 9104, 9102, 9100, 7170, 7120

Greens: 8120, 8115, 8110

Plus Blender pen, Mix'it Palette

Penni - I used an image from Kenny K called Foxy Mama for this challenge ....

Graph'It Markers Used

Skin - 4120, 4115, 4150

Cheeks - 4145

Hair - 3120, 3150

Dress and Shoes - 7125, 7105, 7130

Wow, what lovely makes and colouring this week - we hope we've inspired you with your Blues!

We'll be back next week with more inspiration for you and the winners from last time - see you there!

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